Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 32 - 34: week.esamecar.net/34

Teaser: Family vacation, lots of RetroGaming, a little Obsidian, iOS and macOS stuff, one movie and a little TV.

#weeknotes

A very, very nice old road bike in front of a brick wall.

A very, very nice old road bike in front of a brick wall.

A very, very nice old road bike in front of a brick wall.

How to use kagi search within Launchbar

There is a kagi help document for Alfred and another one for Search Templates in Launchbar I used as a reference. It’s really easy to set up:

  1. In your Browser
    1. go to kagi.com / Settings / Account
    2. copy your Session Link
  2. Invoke Launchbar
    1. select Menu bar / Index / Show Index
    2. in Launchbar index go to Web / My Search Templates 1 -> add a new one
    3. paste your Session Link into the Template URL field
    4. append &q=%s
  3. done

  1. on my system it’s in German, but you’ll figure it out ↩︎

Okay, until just now I thought my 3D printer was just such a useless thing. But far from it - look what you can do with it! 🪿😍

3d printed goose - reminiscent of Untitled Goose Game from Panic

A camera lies on a table in the restaurant with a half-drunk wheat beer glass next to it.

Let’s have some fun 😅

Free Fall Tower in Hansa Park, Germany

VW Bulli T1

Front of a yellow VW Bulli T1 with "Dunlop Reifen" written on it.

Brick wall of house with mailbox slot and door taped shut

Finished reading: Nutzen Sie Ihr zweites Gehirn by Tiago Forte 📚

I finally found the answer 🙂

Draft widget on iOS lockscreen stating 42 drafts in the inbox.

Our dog relaxes on the train ride towards the holiday.

Dog relaxes on train's floor.

Field path, a lot of green, on the horizon a castle on a hill

Field path, a lot of green, on the horizon a castle on a hill

I've come to a decision today.

I’ve been using Apple products for almost 18 years now. I adore their hardware and used to be a big fan of their software ecosystem. However, the software quality has plummeted lately, to the point where I’ve decided not to buy any new Apple products for the time being.

Because it just does not work (reliably).

I will continue using the devices I already have, and I do have quite a few. But I will actively resist the urge to acquire new flashy products from Cupertino until I feel that Apple gets its act together again.

Here are just a few random examples:

  1. My new Airpods Pro (2nd Gen) just do not appear in Find My.
  2. The for us essential Screen Time feature often doesn’t work at all on my youngest son’s iPhone.
  3. Both of my Macs often lose all their entries in System Settings / Accessibility, rendering a bunch of apps useless until I manually add them back in.
  4. System Settings itself are a nightmare.
  5. Messages ALWAYS informs me that my son has enabled “do not disturb mode,” preventing him from receiving incoming messages. Of course, that is not true at all.
  6. Screen Time requests from my son show up in a group chat with him and my wife. I have to delete all messages daily in that chat because the Screen Time messages make the thread unresponsive. It even crashes on macOS. So, the chat becomes unusable for communication. We have to use another app - WTF?
  7. Preview under macOS loses text notes for annotations I’ve made after saving a PDF. This is a complete showstopper for the entire app. Data loss should be unacceptable.
  8. My Home Pod mini in the kitchen often forgets timers. This really makes me happy during cooking.
  9. Don’t even get me started on the general reliability of Siri.
  10. Recently, I discovered that many files do not appear in Spotlight search. It’s frustrating when I know a file is there, but it simply cannot be found. This is almost as bad as data loss.
  11. And then there all those little bugs I just ignore on a daily basis. There are definitely enough to start a “a bug a day” series …

I would also have liked to have hiked directly to the castle on the horizon, but there was no time for that :-)

Landscape photo with castle on the horizon

I thought before I implement my own blogroll on my omg.lol page, I might as well first compile a list of blogrolls created by people whose blogs I like to follow. So, a blogroll for blogrolls: blogroll.lol

It’s still a fairly short list, but maybe it will get longer with time. I really don’t know why I’m such a meta lunatic. 🤦‍♂️

#blogroll

Here are a few things that caught my attention in week thirty: week.esamecar.net/30

Teaser: Not so much, as I was a little sickly. 🤒

#weeknotes

A forest path in the middle towards the horizon. Right and left trees. In front a dog can be seen from behind

Ein Waldweg in der Mitte Richtung Horizont. Rechts und links Bäume. Vorne ein Hund von hinten zu sehen.

Ein Waldweg in der Mitte Richtung Horizont. Rechts und links Bäume. Vorne ein Hund von hinten zu sehen.

I am very grateful to be able to be in the forest within a few minutes to walk my dog.

Dog on a drag line on a path in the forest.

Here are a few things that caught my attention in week twenty-nine: week.esamecar.net/29

Teaser: #Sourdough, Summerfest #macOS App, #Playdate, #Obsidian and some #iOS apps.

#weeknotes

Sourdough bread on a wire rack

Great scenery on today’s bike trip.

Cyclist, two castles and a rain frontDetail of a road, grain field and dark clouds